Six Taosenos Who Braved the Colorado River: Two Accounts of a Trip through Glen Canyon in Utah
[Taos NM]: Published by Janderjon & Sons; Distributed by Taos Book Shop, Taos, N.M., [1960]. First Edition. SIGNED by Spud Johnson, Claire Morrill, Chilton and Judy Anderson, and Genevieve Janssen (Morrill's Taos Book Shop partner). 12mo (5 1/4" x 7 1/4"); 24 unnumbered pages; illustrations (photographs by Eliot Porter and drawings by Spud Johnson. Printed inside front cover "Dedicated by Claire Morrill and Spud Johnson to their fellow intrepid adventurers: Chilton and Judy Anderson, Genevieve Janssen, Eliot Porter and to their two guides, Ken Ross & Gene Foushee". Staple-bound ivory stock in near fine condition (1/4" closed tear to lower edge of first two pages). Item #22495
Includes Johnson's 'hilariously melodramatic account' of the ten-day river trip through Glen Canyon that changed the course of photographer Eliot Porter's career and resulted in the Sierra Club publishing 'The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado' the second volume in its popular Exhibit Format series, in 1963.
Price: $325.00